Changing the boot children of wrathby the poet Dámaso Alonso, Madrid is a city of thousands of tons of granite. There are, of course, no latest statistics. Daily contemplation is enough. Squares, sidewalks, walls, buildings, roundabouts, benches, curbs. Almost all the elements that build the “lego” of a city. In the times of Philip II and Philip IV the logic lay in the fact that it was the stone that was extracted from the nearby quarries of the Sierra del Guadarrama, and The Monastery of El Escorial was the architectural model of an empire.
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